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They are very pretty dogs

Such striking eyes

Mackpack I don't have any idea how wise I am being. Just desperate. i am loading him up with ery supplement that i have read about that could help.
The vet said he was a very strong dog.
He is all fired up this morning. Full of snark!!

Oh.. He only vomited for three days in the morning. Tuesday very heavy, once on my daughters bed were he sleeps and again an hour later. Wednesday once in the morning early , Thursday only a little, this was after the chicken the night before.

Oh.. He only vomited for three days in the morning. Tuesday very heavy, once on my daughters bed were he sleeps and again an hour later. Wednesday once in the morning early , Thursday only a little, this was after the chicken the night before.

Never any diarrhea, His stool his brown and solid three times today. He has been eating Dr. Dobbs diet with the science diet from the can mixed in. The sweet potatoes firm his stool up nicely.

We just finished playing hide and seek with my 7 year old daughter. He always wins.
He is getting his aggression back. Honestly, it is like the vet and I are talking about two different dogs. His appetite is healthy.

The only difference is he does not seem as eager for aggressive play./ Before this bout of illness any move towards one of his toys would have him tearing up the house.

My 1.5 year old male Pharaoh started vomiting early in the morning on tuesday june 8th, and again on june 9th. After the second time started eating grass like a goat.

He had been on a mostly raw diet of ground chicken parts with one can each of tuna sardines per week. I had a very busy period at work and put out dry food for him for about a week before the incident. The brands were Avoderm and Blue Wilderness. We had these around for a month or two for emergencies. He has eaten both before at the rate of a bag every six months or so.

He was a little less active those days and I scheduled him for the vet on Thursday. Thursday morning there was a small amount of vomit.

The vet prescribed science diet canned food and took a blood test.

Thursday night he ate the ground chicken as usual.

During this period he was only responding to first class stimulants like a walk or a squirell in the back yard.
He would not even try to escape when we left the house. He would not respond to invitations to play. He did still seem eager to go on his walk twace a day.

Friday I force fed him some canned science diet. He did not throw up and seemed to recover. Saturday morning he was showing great deal of improvement.

We were playing with his friend in the field when the vet called and said his liver readings were off the chart.

AST(SGOT) 1710 Normal 15-66

Alkaline Phosphatase 3715 Normal 5-131

GGTP 2.0 Normal .1-,3

Monocytes 1210 Normal 0-840

Every thing else was normal.

The doctor put him on pregnisone and cephalexin. I did some research and cooked a bach of Dr. Dobbs liver diet and gave him Sam-e, silymarin, phosphatylcholin and vitamins including extra E. Also L-Carnatin and Alpha lipoic acid in the form of Juvenon.

He has steadily gotten better. Sunday afternoon he shredded a duster and started stealing my daughters toys again. Sunday night I felt his nose against my leg begging for food while I was cooking. He had a shower and acted like a normal little Hun as usual.

Monday he was pretty much normal, playing with his squeaky toys and alerting Basenji style to any external noises. Honestly, we felt he had fully recovered.

After some debate we coughed up the $850 for a sonogram tuesday.

He is back and groggy still at 5:53 PM. His liver has substansial scarring. The specialist said it seems a little small. His spleen is slightly enlarged.
Also the x-ray indicated his intestines were slightly inflamed.

The doctor was shocked to hear that he was acting normal. He has lost about a pound and a half through this ordeal. The vet did more blood tests on his office machine which only goes up to 1500, his readings are still off the charts.

He put him on a liquid drug for parasites and gave him Marin. I had already ordered Denosyl online as a precaution.

We have no real clue what happened. He was his normal self and then he just went down and came back up after a couple of days.

Here are the theories:

• An infection. we live in south Florida. it could be anything from leptospirosis to something no one has ever seen before. He did seem to recover faster after the antibiotics.

• Something Toxic. He has drank pond water or ran into algae before we could react on occasion. I stumbled across blue green algae poisoning during my research and was fairly shocked.
  He could have ate something, both Mushrooms and various poisonous plants have been suggested. We have too many here to count. We scoured the property and could find nothing toxic. He has a fenced in backyard and he chews on weeds fairly randomly most of the time.

I am deeply suspicious of the commercial dog foods he ate. In my mind his illness is linked with those dry dog foods. He threw up the dog food twice and he has never had any problem with his raw diet.

*My breeder suggested his Thyroid. She stated that she had never seen this problem.

Pharaoh has been extremely healthy since birth. He goes full speed at everything. This spring at a year and 2 months he reached 26 pounds. He is the smartest dog I ever heard of. Whatever hit him hit hard and fast and nearly took him. Does anyone have any ideas?

The shock collar I use is a sports dog. It has given our basenji nearly unlimited freedom on his long romps. He might get shocked twice a week.

It changed his whole life.

When I took my dog to the vet, the entire staff were congratulating me on making a common sense decision. The vet said" That will be one less basenji in the shelter.
Being a dedicated liberal it is painful to see such obtuse political correctness as is often exhibited on this forum.

Be aware if you admit to using a shock collar the PC's will hound you to death.

Does any body know how to quickly disengage from this forum? It is a complete waste of time-apparently ran by the evergreen basenji club,order their basenji guide if you want to gauge their organization. All form and no function.

I am deeply offended. You are a complete moron Sharon. Good bye Basenji forum. This place is only about cute stories not solutions.

Sharon, I appreciate your concern and respect your advice. My intention is to only use the collar to stop biting. I have no intention to use it for general behavior problems. He is at the point where he could be easily put down for a bite. Assuming there is no alternative to the collar and that it is going to be part of his life for the next two months how would you recommend that I use it along with positive reinforcement so that I can make this lesson short and effective? I would despair of seeing him wearing this thing a year from now.

I agree mostly about this research on dominance-I read the article some time ago. However most of Pharaohs problems DO stem from dominance. He is after the number the number 1 slot not number 2, he regards Svetlana as his junior. having a junior is his basis for taking over the pack. It took my wife months two earn her position above him. He recognizes me as 1. I can take stolen meat from him-Think roast chicken stolen off of the high table when he was 3 months- no one else can.

several times-nothing really constructive. He has only one really bad trait. i understand that you can get a lot of very poor short term results with shock collars. But he is dangerous enough that I need to have the means to stop it at once. I have no intention of using this collar for any other behavior modification. I see no other use for these tools.

redvelvetlynx, My daughter did expect a magic puppy. He was a biter from the start. I wanted a female but our breeder convinced the girls that a boy would bond with Svetlana better. He intimidates her terribly and she is the root of the problem. I hear about the bites minutes later. My daughter just cries softly, until someone notices. Then it is too late to correct him. However he cheerfully bites the hell out anyone who ignores him, including me. I fear for any intruders life. He goes ballistic when any one enters our yard. I wanted the bigger brother but our breeder said he wasn't for a first time Basinji owner..imagine if I had got him.

We ordered it when we got the puppy- got it eight weeks after, please don't go there with my wife present-she will go ballistic.
All of the information appeared to have been cut and pasted from online sources. We were switching banks and she had to keep the account open until we could convince someone at evergreen to cash the check. We threw the manual away after flipping through it once. We had ten books by that time and had gone through two trainers. I took a lot of procedural hits on that one.

Sharon, you have hit at the heart of the problem we have, no consistency, and a strong willed Basenji. i just need something that every one can employ for biting now that he has started to mature. My hope is the collar will act a s negative reinforcement to help him realize it is serious. i have no attention of zapping him for his many other sins.

There are a lot of extreme opinions out there on this issue. I am a public adjuster by trade, I fight insurance companies for a living, this gives me a sensitive eye for bias. I read the screeds against shock collars and I tend to agree with the sentiment underlying them. However, I believe that the people who authored these papers were against them from the beginning root, tree and branch. Opinions like this are nearly worthless.

I was severely beaten as a child and it negatively impacted my life. I have a seven year old daughter who has never felt my hand. When we walk our dog I see people constantly hitting their dogs to correct them. I don't.. NOT EVER. If you are against shock collars on principle then I understand your bias.

I would love to have the luxury of the gentle art conversation to talk Pharaoh out of biting the hell out of my daughter, my wife, my guests, or the little kid at the park who ignored him. This guy can cut a squirrel in half on the run. He needs to know his limits now.

I will cheerfully employ any positive reinforcements suggested to restrain him from biting people. I intend to make this course of therapy short but effective. I do not intend to employ this technique on misdemeanors. Only biting.

However I do need a means of stopping him in the act…NOW. My research has indicted that the shortest path to stopping this behavior is the collar.

If you are reading this and are serious about stopping people from using shock collars then I would suggest you take some of your time to write a definitive guide to raising a Basenji pup that won't bite people. I searched in vain for any real solutions to this issue. This is by far the most incredible dog I have ever known. Every forum on this page that starts off about biting ends in recriminations and sniping. Good for some peoples egos.. Does nothing to stop the biting.

The breeder is a couple of hundred miles away. I will certainly try to do that if it will help. How long would I have to leave him?

He is getting some better. I cry out sharply when he hurts and tell him NO BITING! Which he understands. The problem is getting everyone to do it consistently.

He is the smartest dog that I have ever even heard of. I am sure it will not take much work with the collar to stop him. He has been clicker trained since 7 weeks and is very proud of his tricks. However, I have gradually become convinced that there will have to be some degree of negative reinforcement with Pharaoh.

Otherwise he doesn't have a great deal of behavior issues.

It is interesting that people have no problems with other dogs "teaching him Lessons" douptless with sharp teeth, but go into fits at the mention of a mild electric shock when the dog is biting a child. Weird.. When people get there minds set about hot button issues they quickly move to paint any one on the other side as evil.

If by a one puppy in litter no Ithink there wer 7. We made the mistake of getting him at 7 weeks

Rita Jean, Can you give me a basic break down on how the sitmeanssit collar works? I want to control biting and running away.

I am not that interested in using it for any kind of performance training. I am adverse to negative reinforcement and corporal punishment as well. Pharaoh is much like most aggressive Basenjis i have read about. He is very dominant.

He has three modes of biting
1. The play mode which is no real problem, but it does hurt sometimes.

2. The attention getter. If someone ignores him they will receive a painful ankle nip. He can get quit excited about this.

3. The running slash. When playing ball or chase he will take a running slashing bite on my thigh. This is the most dangerous.

He will often bite my 7 year old daughter when they are playing. My daughters reaction is to cry softly. She never remembers to scream sharply and move away from him.